Improvement in portable fences



J'. M. CUYKENDALL 80 A. G. KELLOGG.

PORTABLE-FENCE. I No.175,341. Patented March 28,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. CUYKENDALL AND ANSON G. KELLOGG, OF RIPON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,341, dated March 28, 1876; application filed January 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES M. GUYKEN- DALL and ANSON G. KELLOGG, of Ripon, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new, useful, and Improved Portable Fence, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, which will enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the said improvement, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, and in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a portion of a portable fence embodying our invention. Fig. 2 represents a top view of the same, showing the position of the panels when diverging from a straight line. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of the jack employed in connecting and supporting the ends of the panels.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

Our invention relates to that class of portable fences constructed mainly of boards; and the object of our invention is to provide a means of connecting the ends of the panels, so as to enable them to be easily adjusted and held firmly in position,either in a straight line, or at an obtuse angle one to the other, as may be required. To that end it consistsin the arrangement of the jack, connecting and supporting the endsof the panels, as will be more fully understood from the following description.

In the drawing, A A represent the panels, each consisting of a series of horizontal rails, a, arranged parallel one with the other, and firmly secured to the side of the vertical bars d and e, as shown in Fig. 1. B is the jack proper, for connecting and supporting the end of the panels A. This jack consists of four vertical uprights, ff and g g, permanently attached at their lower ends to a horizontal bedpiece, h, arranged'between them, andat their upper ends to opposite sides of braces in m,

extending downward to the bed-piece h, and firmly attached thereto at a pointnear its end, as shown in Fig. 4. The arrangement and location of the uprights upon the bed-piece are such as to provide a space, a, between them, and of proper width o admit the adjacent ends of the panels, allowing them to overlap each other, as shown in Fig.1, and to form aspace, a, transverse to the plane of the panels to admit the pins r 1", which pass through the ends of the top and bottom rails of the adjacent panels, connecting them firmly together.

When making the panels to be used in the construction of a fence wherein the panels diverge from a straight line, as in the construction for small inclosures, we notch or cut away the lower edge of one end, and the upper edge of the other end of each rail, so as to allow them to overlap one above the other, as shown in Fig. 3, the space it, between the uprights, being of suitable width to admit of turning the panels to the angle desired.

By this arrangement of jack and panels we are enabled to build a strong, durable, and cheap portable fence, which is easily and readily adjusted, and firm and substantial when in position.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the panels A A, the jack B, consisting of the bed-piece h, braces m m, and uprightsff and gg, the braces passing between the uprights to which they are connected, all the parts being so arranged as to form the space n to receive the ends of the panels, and the space n to receive the pins 1" r, to connect the ends of the panels, substan tially in the manner specified.

JAMES M. GUYKENDALL. ANSON G. KELLOGG. Witnesses:

JOHN IRVING, G. F. HORNER. 

